Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central-02.txt

Thus spake "Roger Jorgensen" <rogerj@jorgensen.no>
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>> Also, in the case of SLAs, the utility of the addresses is
>> impacted greatly by whether you consider a "site" to be a
>> single administrative domain, where there would not be
>> internal collisions, vs. considering each distinct location
>> to be a "site", which could lead to hundreds or thousands
>> of internal collisions.
>
> I can not see how SLAs are any of this wg's business, or ietfs
> businness.  thought SLA was something for the laywers that
> write the contracts governing any SLAs to fight out between
> them?

Site-Local Addresses, the predecessor to Unique Local Addresses.

>> As far as why "site" has been abused to mean "administrative
>> domain", that comes from the IETF and RIRs being very ISP-
>> centric, as I said; a single downstream connection denotes a
>> single "site" regardless of how complex the internal network
>> behind it is or how many other locations it serves.  Or maybe
>> it doesn't, depending on who's talking; that's the problem.
>
> that downstream connection is ONE site for the upstream
> provider, will probably never be anything else. Why should it
> be anything else really? If the same "site" bought two
> connection to an ISP on different location they would still be
> one huge site, with several internal parts, two that the ISP need to know 
> about.

No, that's one interpretation of the word.  Others (notably the person I was 
responding to) consider every physical location to be a "site" even if a 
large set of locations all share a single internal network and single 
uplink.

> What I'm not sure you realize is that the moment anyone define
> a site to be something very specific... there will come alot of
> exceptions to that list, not to forget discussion on how to
> interprent whats written there.

We already have extensive disagreement on interpretation due to lack of any 
agreed-upon definition.

S

Stephen Sprunk      "Those people who think they know everything
CCIE #3723         are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
K5SSS                                             --Isaac Asimov 

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